Bella Latham has already established herself as a pioneering art-pop star, creating songs rich in both an auditory and thematic sense. However, this year has taken things to a whole new level. Baby Queen dissects her biggest increase in momentum to date.
Words: Finlay Holden. Photos: Ami Ford.
From working in a record store to getting signed not long before the pandemic, the career of Baby Queen felt, internally, like a slow burn – but from the outside, music fans have watched a new name explode onto the scene and tour alongside one of the industry's biggest pop artists. "It's been so much more of a journey than people on the outside will ever see. I keep having these moments where I'm struck by the fact that not too long ago, I was working at Rough Trade, seeing artists release albums and knew that one day I wanted to do that myself. This goal felt impossible to me."
Having recently concluded the Sour Tour, which saw the singer-songwriter travel across the nation alongside Olivia Rodrigo, Bella Latham has been able to view the current scope of those once-modest ambitions in venues and stages of a daunting magnitude. "I'd love to fill that space eventually, but at the same time, with that size of an audience in front of me, it was really good to not have to deal with something I'd never had to prepare for before," she share on the sudden increase in scale. Fortunately, she was able to quickly settle in and get down to business. "[Olivia's] fans are amazing and were so up for being friendly and welcoming that after just the first day of being up there, I felt totally comfortable. As we played that show every night, the live band just got so much tighter – by the end of the six weeks, we knew we were lit."
